Ema P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ema P., who was born in Holíč, Slovakia in 1924. She recalls her father's death; her mother's remarriage to a non-Jewish, Russian physician; leaving school as a result of anti-Jewish laws; her adoptive father arranging for her to avoid deportations beginning in 1942 with assistance from other non-Jews; his work with the partisans; fleeing to Slatina nad Bebravou using false papers; her father leaving them when he fought in the uprising; traveling with her mother to Bratislava during the chaos of German attacks; her father joining them; exposure by a German from Holíč; arrest; interrogation in Vlčkovia; transfer with her mother to Sered', then Ravensbrück; assistance from two Czech prisoners; useless slave labor; living in the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); her mother's death; assistance from an Austrian communist when she was ill; tearing off her Jewish emblem to pose as a political prisoner; hospitalization; remaining behind during evacuation; liberation by Soviet troops; return home; reunion with her father; and studying in Moscow. Ms. P. discusses ethnic groups in the camps; losing her illusions about her parents' power to save her; and her father's fight to save her and her mother. She shows photographs.

2 videocassettes